Silsila (1981)
Director: Yash Chopra; Writer: Sagar Sarhadi; Producer: Yash Chopra; Cinematographer: Kay Gee; Editor: Keshav Naidu; Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Jaya Bhaduri, Sanjeev Kumar, Rekha Ganesan
Duration: 02:55:25; Aspect Ratio: 1.360:1; Hue: 61.189; Saturation: 0.071; Lightness: 0.220; Volume: 0.249; Cuts per Minute: 10.243; Words per Minute: 52.300
Summary: Shobha (Bhaduri) is in love with the air force officer Shekhar (Kapoor). Shekhar’s younger brother Amit (Bachchan) writes poetry and plays and woos Chandni (Rekha). Shekhar dies in the war, leaving Shobha pregnant. Amit sacrifices his love for Chandni to marry Shobha and save her reputation. Chandni marries a doctor (Kumar) in the town where Amit and Shobha live. The ex-lovers meet in an accident in which Shobha loses her baby. Amit and Chandni have an affair while their marital partners suffer in silence. The lovers elope after a highly stylised confrontation between the two women (the two rivals standing back to back). The film features Bachchan’s alleged offscreen lover Rekha and his wife Bhaduri (who came out of retirement to play the part). Several scenes appear designed to fuel or to exploit the gossip journalism which underpins and surrounds film careers. In the end, the sanctity of marriage triumphs and the original married couples are restored. Bachchan sang his own songs and declaimed numerous poetic couplets addressed to Chandni, fully exploiting a key aspect of his star persona: his deep baritone voice. Songs picturised in Dutch tulip fields help promote Rekha’s image as a glamorous but unattainable object of desire.
Song: Sar se sarke, sarke chunariya
सर से सरके, सरके चुनरिया
Song: Pahli pahli bar dekhaa aisaa jalwaa ho aisaa jalwaa
पहली-पहली बार देखा ऐसा जलवा हो ऐसा जलवा
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Song: Neelaa aasmaan so gayaa
नीला आसमाँ सो गया
Song: Dekhaa ek khwaab toh yeh silsile hue
देखा एक ख़्वाब तो ये सिलसिले हुए
दूर तक निगाहों में हैं गुल खिले हुए
Song: Neela aasmaan so gayaa
नीला आसमाँ सो गया
Song: Mai aur meri tanhaayi aksar yeh baatein karte rehte hain
मैं और मेरी तन्हाई, अक्सर ये बातें करते हैं
Song: Rang barase bheege chunarwaa
रंग बरसे भीगे चुनरवाली, रंग बरसे
अरे कैने मारी पिचकारी तोरी भीगी अंगिया
Song: Jo tum todo piya mai nahin todun re
जो तुम तोड़ो पीया मैं नहीं तोड़ूँ रे
Song:
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